Quantitative Trading Internship: Summer 2027

About the role

This 10-week London internship combines quantitative trading education with hands-on projects and trading simulations. Interns study finance, options, programming, and game theory, work with mentors on real-world trading problems, and develop decision-making skills within a collaborative quantitative trading environment.

Responsibilities

• Work alongside a dedicated mentor on a real-world trading problem.
• Complete project work that may improve trading strategies, enhance tools, or uncover market insights.
• Participate in hands-on trading simulations, mock trading, and proprietary trading games.
• Collaborate with colleagues who share interests in mathematics, problem-solving, game theory, and technology.

Training

• Attend classroom-based education led by experienced employees and senior traders.
• Study finance, options, ETF trading, programming, game theory, and mock trading.
• Take part in poker classes, strategy board games, trader talks, seminars, and in-house trading games.

Requirements

• Be a penultimate-year student or recent graduate who has completed three university years by June 2027.
• Demonstrate strong quantitative skills and an ability to solve complex problems.
• Communicate clearly, build working relationships, share ideas, and listen to others.
• Show ambition and commitment to achieving personal goals.

Program Benefits

• Work in a non-hierarchical, casual, and collaborative culture.
• Receive a highly competitive compensation package.
• Use London office facilities including free onsite catering, a games room, and dedicated education space.
• Successful interns may be invited to the full-time graduate programme, subject to availability.